A new study, published in Medical Decision Making, has found that patients have a negative perception of physicians who use computerized clinical decision support systems, possibly because patients ...

New York-based Synchron, a brain-computer interface (BCI) company, has released a video showing an ALS patient using an iPad controlled entirely by thought in what it says is the "first-ever public ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Mark Jackson lost use of his hands after being diagnosed with ALS. A patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has become the first person in the world to control an iPad entirely by thought, ...

Allowing people with disabilities to talk by just thinking about a word, that's what UC Davis researchers hope to accomplish with new cutting-edge technology. It can be a breakthrough for people with ...

- A patient with ALS in the United States is the first person in the world to use Apple Vision Pro via an implantable brain computer interface - Brain-controlled commands replace the need for hand ...

The third patient of Elon Musk’s brain computer interface company Neuralink is using the billionaire’s foul-mouthed AI chatbot Grok to speed up communication. The patient, Bradford Smith, who has ...